Will Starling

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9780864925718

<p><b>Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic<br>Longlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award</b></p><p>From the acclaimed author of <i>Daniel O&#39;Thunder</i> comes a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about love and redemption, death and resurrection.</p> <p>The great metropolis of London swaggers with Regency abandon as nineteen-year-old Will Starling returns from the Napoleonic Wars having spent five years assisting a military surgeon. Charming, brash, and damaged, Will is helping his mentor build a medical practice &#8212; and a life &#8212; in the rough Cripplegate area. To do so requires an alliance with the Doomsday Men: body snatchers that supply surgeons and anatomists with human cadavers.</p> <p>After a grave robbing goes terribly awry and a prostitute is accused of murder, Will becomes convinced of an unholy conspiracy that traces its way back to Dionysus Atherton, the brightest of London&#39;s rising surgical stars. Wild rumours begin to spread of experiments upon the living and of uncanny sightings in London&#39;s dark streets.</p> <p>Will&#39;s obsessive search for the truth twists through alleyways, brothels, and charnel houses, towards a shattering discovery &#8212; about Dionysus Atherton and about Will, himself.</p> <p>Steeped in scientific lore, laced with dark humour, <i>Will Starling</i> is historical fiction like none other.</p>